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Francois Fillon achieves landslide primary win for French conservative party The Republicans

Francois Fillon achieves landslide primary win for French conservative party The Republicans

Francois Fillon, a social conservative from France’s Catholic right and former prime minister, won Frances Les Republicains party primary on 27 November. He will now contest next springs presidential election.With votes from four-fifths of 10,228 polling stations counted, Fillon, who went into the second-round run-off as firm favourite, had won over 67% of the vote in a head-to-head battle with another ex-prime minister, Alain Juppe.All eyes now turn to the ruling Socialist party and to whether President Francois Hollande will decide to run for the left-wing ticket in his partys primaries in January.Opinion polls suggest neither he nor any left-wing candidate would make the second round of the presidential election itself next May, leaving Fillon a clear run at the anti-EU, anti-immigration National Front leader Le Pen that the surveys predict him to win. Nov 28, 2016
Harrowing emergency call by witness of Jox Cox murder

Harrowing emergency call by witness of Jox Cox murder

This video is the audio of a call made to the emergency services by a witness to the fatal attack on MP Jo Cox, a strong Remain campaigner, on 16 June 2016 just a week before the EU referendum. Far-right supporter Thomas Mair, 53, has been found guilty of her murder. He shot and stabbed to death the mother-of-two in Birstall, West Yorkshire, on 16 June. Nov 23, 2016
Bernie Sanders fires up Dakota Access Pipeline protest

Bernie Sanders fires up Dakota Access Pipeline protest

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders joined a group of protesters demonstrating against the North Dakota Access Pipeline in Washington DC on 15 November.The day was marked nationally as a Day of Action, with many protesters using the #NoDAPLDayofAction hashtag in one of the largest coordinated efforts against the pipeline since construction began. Outspoken in his opposition to the pipeline, on the same day Sanders – in response to the 8 November whirlwind victory – tweeted at President-elect Donald Trump: “We are not going silently into the night. The stakes are too high for the future of this planet.” Nov 16, 2016
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